Alejandro Alvarez

Alejandro Alvarez was a Cuban counterfeiter who worked for Fidel Castro's communist government and the Marcano crime family.

Biography
Alejandro Alvarez was born in Cuba, the nephew of Zarraga, a policeman under Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship. Alvarez followed his uncle's footsteps and became a criminal, counterfeiting money for Fidel Castro's communist regime in addition to counterfeiting the Marcano crime family's money. In 1968, Sal Marcano had his brother Tommy Marcano hire Alvarez to make counterfeited money from plates that were stolen from the Federal Reserve Bank on Mardi Gras. Lincoln Clay targeted Alvarez during his crusade to take down the Marcanos, as Alvarez was key to the Marcano family's plot to counterfeit the money and use it to fund the construction of a new casino. Alvarez contacted his uncle and asked him to send a boat to the Anderson Bay Lighthouse in the Bayou Fantom to pick him up and take him back to Cuba, but Zarraga told Sal Marcano about this, leading to Marcano sending his hitmen to kill Alvarez. Clay got to Alvarez first, convincing him that he was there to help him, and Clay and Alvarez shot their way past several Marcano hitmen before fleeing to Father James Ballard's home. Clay persuaded Ballard to contact his friend, a Jesuit in New Mexico, who was involved with helping refugees, and Alvarez managed to escape New Orleans as Marcano's men scoured the city for him.